Newspapers are reporting that 8 Holland America Line (HAL) cruise passengers were killed today when the sightseeing airplane they booked through HAL crashed near Ketchikan, Alaska.
The Seattle PI newspaper reports that the pilot of the charter plane and all eight cruise passengers died when the plane crashed about 20 miles northeast of Ketchikan. The aircraft reportedly
News 5 in Belize is reporting that a U.S. cruise passenger on an excursion in Belize was killed when the SUV in which she was riding was struck from behind by a 18-wheel truck.
The on-line newspaper states that the 18-wheeler was loaded with oranges and was traveling from the Hummingbird Citrus Limited Two farm
News sources in Alaska are reporting that a Princess Cruises employee was killed when a Princess Tours excursion bus overturned on a rain slicked highway in Alaska.
The accident occurred at mile 173 on Parks Highway, approximately 200 miles south of Fairbanks.
The Frontiersman reports that this is the second serious incident involving a Princess-owned
News 7 in Belize published an article yesterday entitled Tourists Survive Head On Collision.
The story involves two cruise passengers who had taken an excursion ashore in Belize and were involved in a serious accident while riding in a van which had a head-on collision with another van. The tour van they were in was
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The Associated Press reports that a cruise ship passenger from New York state has died at a beach in the Cayman Islands.
According to the newspaper, police in the Cayman Islands identified the victim as Louis Janvier DeBiase of Deer Park.
Police say that Mr. DeBiase, age 81, lost consciousness while swimming in waters at
A newspaper in Norway reports that a cruise ship passenger was killed and three other passengers were injured while on an Artic cruise excursion. The incident occurred when a rubber inflatable boat (a Zodiac) was swamped by a wave in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, causing all 13 people to go into icy Arctic waters.
A number of newspapers including the Orlando Sentinel are reporting on the death of a young couple who cruised to Cozumel and died during a dune buggy accident last Saturday.
Jim Melillo and Susan Borges sailed from Fort Lauderdale to Mexico aboard Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas and signed up for a dune
The newspaper Today reports that cruise passengers from a cruise ship were involved in a serious accident while riding in an excursion bus to the Loterie Farm excursion in St. Martin. Cruise Critic U.K. reports that the passengers were from Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas cruise ship.
The incident occurred last Thursday while
The Juneau Empire newspaper reports today that a cruise ship passenger from Texas died after after his kayak overturned in Mendenhall Lake in Juneau, Alaska on Sunday.
A spokeswoman for the Tongass National Forest stated that the deceased cruise passengers was 62 year old Michael Ray Fullerton. Mr. Fullerton was with other family members, from a cruise
Travel Agent Central published an interesting article today mentioning that a nationwide strike in Italy is scheduled for today by the Italian Public Transport Workers.
The article was written by one of the employees of Travel agent Central who is cruising on Carnival’s new cruise ship, the Carnival Breeze, which sailed into Venice this
Yesterday I talked about the recent armed robbery of 22 Carnival cruise passengers who were traveling in a bus back to the port in Puerto Vallarta during a Carnival sponsored excursion.
I mentioned that the cruise lines and tourism officials would quickly start a PR campaign to convince the public that robberies of large groups
A cruise sponsored open safari bus excursion from a Royal Caribbean ship crashed in St. Thomas, resulting in injuries to cruise passengers.
The passengers were traveling from the Serenade of the Seas cruise ship in the safari bus when the open air bus lost control going down an embankment.
Royal Caribbean stated that eleven of the passengers were immediately transported to a local area
A excursion bus carrying cruise passengers plunged into a ravine in northern Morocco (Castillejos) today and killed nine Portuguese tourists. 14 cruise passengers were injured.
44 passengers were aboard the bus when it crashed during foggy and rainy weather. Some news sources are indicating the bus driver may have been speeding.
AFP reports that the passengers were from
